Ellen Zaslaw Photography bio picture
  • Welcome to my website. I'm a photographer based in Ithaca in the scenic Finger Lakes region of New York, specializing in wedding photography and portraiture. I work largely in a photojournalistic style but portraits are a strong suit too. As well, I'm devoted to landscapes and cityscapes. Call me versatile.

    Locally, I photograph here in Central New York--in Ithaca, Syracuse, Cortland, Skaneateles, Geneva, Elmira, Corning, Aurora, Binghamton, Alpine, Watkins Glen, or anywhere else the roads go. But I've enjoyed travel to the far corners of the earth, so if you have a photo project somewhere between here and Antarctica, run it by me. You never know.

    Please enjoy a tour of my site. I hope it will be the start of a conversation.

    Ellen Zaslaw

wedding photos – Auburn church and Ventosa Vineyards

This wedding took place in three locales: St. Hyacinth Church in Auburn, and Geneva on the Lake and Ventosa Vineyards, both in Geneva.  Photographed for Frank DiMeo._mg_1501_mg_15591_mg_1591_mg_1618unc_mg_1705_mg_1803r_mg_1854_mg_1858_mg_1881_mg_0035_mg_1953_mg_1982_mg_2006_mg_2043_mg_20521_mg_2065_mg_2082_mg_21161_mg_2162_mg_0085_mg_0223r_mg_0267_mg_0295_mg_0406_mg_0425_mg_0567

a wedding at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York

This wedding took place in Willard Straight Hall and at the Statler Hotel on the Cornell University campus. Photographed for Frank DiMeo.
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a wedding – E.B. Morgan House / Aurora Inn – Aurora NY

This wedding took place at the E. B. Morgan House in Aurora, New York, under the same management as the Aurora Inn. The ceremony took place at lakeside on the lawn, and then the house and its grounds (and even the lake) accommodated guests for the reception. Photographed for Frank DiMeo.

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a green wedding at the New York Botanical Garden

This couple, deeply committed to doing their part to preserve this earth, planned a wedding that wasted little yet still was elegant. Attendants did not wear one-use garments, reception food and table decor were sustainable, and so on. The fitting venue was the New York Botanical Garden. I was an invited guest photographer.
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a wedding in the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts

This wedding took place at a private home in Great Barrington, Massachusetts._mg_0199w1_mg_7187w_mg_0253w_mg_0269rw_mg_0266w_mg_0290softfocw1_mg_7237rw_mg_7235w_mg_7256w

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